# Applied AI Engineer

About the role Scale's Global Public Sector team uses AI to address critical challenges facing the public sector around the world. As an Applied AI Engineer, you'll build AI that runs inside production systems used by national health and government organisations. You'll own scoped components of those systems, such as a model integration, agent tool, API, data pipeline, or evaluation, from implementation through to delivery. Senior engineers set the system-level design and client commitments, so you can go deep on making your components work reliably on real data. What you'll do Own the implementation, testing, and delivery of defined AI components within an established system design Build agent tools, model integrations, and the backend services and APIs they depend on Run and extend evaluations within an established framework, interpret results, investigate common failure modes, and flag regressions Debug production issues in the components you own and resolve them using the team's engineering practices Communicate progress and blockers early, and take responsibility for delivery dates within your scope Work directly with client teams on the requirements and feedback for your comp

- **Id**: 3875180
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/scale-ai-applied-ai-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Kuwait City, Kuwait
- **Countries**: KW
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T14:23:21Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T11:33:50Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5057
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Government, LLM & Generative AI, AI Training Data & Annotation, AI Evaluation & Observability

## Company

- **Id**: 27
- **Name**: Scale AI
- **Domain**: scale.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/scale-ai>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 158
- **Ghost share**: 0.19
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 97
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: yes
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Context Engineering** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **RAG** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T16:01:15Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 97
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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